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Seeing the world beyond news headlines: politicians, journalists and researchers share their insights onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Episode Date
What happens to gas stations when the world goes electric? | Emily Grubert
Mar 21, 2023
The clean energy hub of the future | Rebekah Shirley
Mar 07, 2023
A creative approach to community climate action | Xavier Cortada
Dec 15, 2022
The fight for freedom in Iran and Ukraine | Christiane Amanpour
Nov 28, 2022
Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement | Lindsey Schneider
Nov 23, 2022
How to transform your climate concern into action | Jane Fonda
Oct 28, 2022
What you can learn from people who disagree with you | Shreya Joshi
Oct 25, 2022
How to revitalize a neighborhood -- without gentrification | Bree Jones
Sep 30, 2022
What capitalism gets right -- and governments get wrong | Katherine Mangu-Ward
Sep 02, 2022
The US can move past immigration prisons -- and towards justice | César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Jul 27, 2022
The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown | Yuval Noah Harari
Jun 17, 2022
How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi
May 23, 2022
An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy | Tiana Epps-Johnson
May 02, 2022
Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov
Apr 11, 2022
War in Ukraine -- and what it means for the world order | Ian Bremmer
Mar 11, 2022
How to share public money fairly | Maja Bosnic
Mar 08, 2022
The war in Ukraine could change everything | Yuval Noah Harari
Mar 02, 2022
The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski
Feb 23, 2022
A different understanding of American patriotism | Deval Patrick
Jan 27, 2022
Use your voice, vote and wallet for climate action | Halla Tómasdóttir
Dec 20, 2021
Dear world leaders, these are our climate demands | Xiye Bastida, Shiv Soin and Latif Nasser
Nov 23, 2021
A vision for sustainable energy in Africa | Chibeze Ezekiel
Nov 10, 2021
What to expect from COP26 | Countdown Summit
Oct 25, 2021
Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks
Sep 29, 2021
The big myth of government deficits | Stephanie Kelton
Sep 09, 2021
Don't call people out -- call them in | Loretta J. Ross
Aug 04, 2021
Why COP26 is our best chance for a greener future | Alok Sharma
Jul 19, 2021
How marijuana reform could repair, reclaim and restore communities | Khadijah Tribble
Jun 17, 2021
Who makes judges? | Jessica Kerr
Jun 02, 2021
An app that empowers people to solve their legal problems | Rohan Pavuluri
May 24, 2021
US politics isn't broken. It's fixed | Katherine M. Gehl
Apr 06, 2021
An election system that puts voters (not politicians) first | Amber McReynolds
Mar 25, 2021
How to have constructive conversations | Julia Dhar
Mar 17, 2021
How compassion could save your strained relationships | Betty Hart
Mar 02, 2021
3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century | Max Rashbrooke
Jan 20, 2021
How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections | María Teresa Kumar
Nov 13, 2020
Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste | Amanda Little
Oct 27, 2020
What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election? | Van Jones
Oct 26, 2020
Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent | Ursula von der Leyen
Oct 10, 2020
Racism thrives on silence -- speak up! | Dexter Dias
Oct 02, 2020
The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs | Dannagal G. Young
Sep 22, 2020
How do daily habits lead to political violence? | Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah
Sep 03, 2020
The alliances needed to rebuild the developing world | Achim Steiner
Jun 17, 2020
The ACLU's call to defund the police | Anthony D. Romero
Jun 08, 2020
How to rebuild the global economy | Kristalina Georgieva
May 19, 2020
Restoring human dignity at the US southern border | Norma Pimentel
May 14, 2020
The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle | Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi
May 12, 2020
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic | Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi
May 11, 2020
How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response | Huang Hung
May 08, 2020
What you need to know about face surveillance | Kade Crockford
May 07, 2020
A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines | Skylar Tibbits
May 04, 2020
A global pandemic calls for global solutions | Larry Brilliant
Apr 24, 2020
How to shift your mindset and choose your future | Tom Rivett-Carnac
Apr 22, 2020
What's missing from the American immigrant narrative | Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Apr 21, 2020
How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason
Apr 15, 2020
The intangible effects of walls | Alexandra Auer
Apr 03, 2020
How forgiveness can create a more just legal system | Martha Minow
Mar 30, 2020
How repaying loans with social service transforms communities | Angie Murimirwa
Mar 19, 2020
What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus | David Heymann
Mar 03, 2020
When local news dies, so does democracy | Chuck Plunkett
Mar 03, 2020
What if a single human right could change the world? | Kristen Wenz
Feb 24, 2020
What if the poor were part of city planning? | Smruti Jukur Johari
Feb 06, 2020
Dictators hate political cartoons -- so I keep drawing them | Rayma Suprani
Jan 31, 2020
The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts | Marilyn Waring
Jan 23, 2020
A path to security for the world's deadliest countries | Rachel Kleinfeld
Jan 16, 2020
How supply chain transparency can help the planet | Markus Mutz
Jan 15, 2020
How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it | Nick Bostrom
Dec 19, 2019
How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation | Sinan Aral
Dec 17, 2019
Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans | Kelsey Leonard
Dec 13, 2019
To help solve global problems, look to developing countries | Bright Simons
Dec 12, 2019
The problem of light pollution -- and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it | Kelsey Johnson
Dec 04, 2019
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan | LaToya Ruby Frazier
Nov 20, 2019
5 steps for clean air in India | Arunabha Ghosh
Nov 18, 2019
What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better | Erika Pinheiro
Nov 14, 2019
Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one | Paul A. Kramer
Nov 06, 2019
What happens to people in solitary confinement | Laura Rovner
Nov 05, 2019
The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together | Tashka and Laura Yawanawá
Nov 05, 2019
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean | Tina Arrowood
Oct 16, 2019
How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news | Gangadhar Patil
Oct 08, 2019
Creativity builds nations | Muthoni Drummer Queen
Sep 27, 2019
A wall won't solve America's border problems | Will Hurd
Sep 26, 2019
Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev
Sep 12, 2019
How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing | Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon
Sep 09, 2019
What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner
Sep 03, 2019
What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park
Aug 30, 2019
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani
Aug 26, 2019
What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy | Nanfu Wang
Jul 31, 2019
How policewomen make communities safer | Ivonne Roman
Jul 30, 2019
Why governments should prioritize well-being | Nicola Sturgeon
Jul 29, 2019
The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot
Jul 26, 2019
The fundamental right to seek asylum | Melanie Nezer
Jul 16, 2019
A vision for the future of Sierra Leone | Julius Maada Bio
Jul 03, 2019
The political power of being a good neighbor | Michael Tubbs
Jun 14, 2019
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston
May 29, 2019
What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other | Jarrell Daniels
May 24, 2019
How to revive your belief in democracy | Eric Liu
May 07, 2019
Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them | Michele Wucker
May 01, 2019
Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr
Apr 16, 2019
What refugees need to start new lives | Muhammed Idris
Apr 04, 2019
A bold idea to replace politicians | César Hidalgo
Mar 05, 2019
How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza | Majd Mashharawi
Mar 04, 2019
Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know | Farida Nabourema
Feb 28, 2019
A juror's reflections on the death penalty | Lindy Lou Isonhood
Feb 26, 2019
An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall | Ronald Rael
Feb 25, 2019
How women in Pakistan are creating political change | Shad Begum
Feb 11, 2019
How we can start to heal the pain of racial division | Ruby Sales
Feb 01, 2019
What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century | Tiana Epps-Johnson
Jan 23, 2019
The political progress women have made -- and what's next | Cecile Richards
Jan 18, 2019
3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do | Stacey Abrams
Dec 04, 2018
Is civility a sham? | Teresa Bejan
Nov 14, 2018
What to trust in a "post-truth" world | Alex Edmans
Nov 12, 2018
The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't | Michael Green
Nov 08, 2018
Is war between China and the US inevitable? | Graham Allison
Oct 30, 2018
How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope
Oct 12, 2018
How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together | Tracie Keesee
Sep 25, 2018
Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer? | Benedetta Berti
Sep 11, 2018
What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media | Mikhail Zygar
Jul 18, 2018
Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit | Lindsay Malloy
Jul 03, 2018
What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people? | Brett Hennig
Jun 05, 2018
What it's like to be the child of immigrants | Michael Rain
May 22, 2018
How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford
May 08, 2018
It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence | Laura L. Dunn
May 02, 2018
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
Apr 30, 2018
A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom | Tracee Ellis Ross
Apr 25, 2018
War and what comes after | Clemantine Wamariya
Apr 24, 2018
A Parkland teacher's homework for us all | Diane Wolk-Rogers
Apr 20, 2018
What's missing in the global debate over refugees | Yasin Kakande
Apr 16, 2018
What if we ended the injustice of bail? | Robin Steinberg
Apr 12, 2018
My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini
Mar 28, 2018
The human stories behind mass incarceration | Eve Abrams
Mar 22, 2018
How shocking events can spark positive change | Naomi Klein
Mar 07, 2018
Refugees want empowerment, not handouts | Robert Hakiza
Feb 22, 2018
Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system | Bhu Srinivasan
Feb 12, 2018
3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage | Valarie Kaur
Feb 09, 2018
How protest is redefining democracy around the world | Zachariah Mampilly
Feb 08, 2018
From death row to law graduate | Peter Ouko
Feb 02, 2018
What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness | Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix
Jan 19, 2018
American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how | Bob Inglis
Jan 18, 2018
How to put the power of law in people's hands | Vivek Maru
Jan 12, 2018
3 thoughtful ways to conserve water | Lana Mazahreh
Jan 03, 2018
How adoption worked for me | Christopher Ategeka
Jan 02, 2018
A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy | G.T. Bynum
Nov 30, 2017
Activism needs introverts | Sarah Corbett
Nov 21, 2017
How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming | Per Espen Stoknes
Nov 17, 2017
What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit | Teresa Njoroge
Nov 13, 2017
How judges can show respect | Victoria Pratt
Nov 10, 2017
Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre | Anjan Sundaram
Oct 24, 2017
How to seek truth in the era of fake news | Christiane Amanpour
Oct 06, 2017
What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea | Euna Lee
Sep 29, 2017
A Black man goes undercover in the alt-right | Theo E.J. Wilson
Sep 21, 2017
What we're missing in the debate about immigration | Duarte Geraldino
Sep 19, 2017
How our friendship survives our opposing politics | Caitlin Quattromani and Lauran Arledge
Sep 11, 2017
Who belongs in a city? | OluTimehin Adegbeye
Sep 08, 2017
How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them | Erin Marie Saltman
Sep 05, 2017
How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you | Jennifer Granick
Aug 31, 2017
Why we need to end the era of orphanages | Tara Winkler
Aug 29, 2017
How I help free innocent people from prison | Ronald Sullivan
Aug 15, 2017
Courage is contagious | Damon Davis
Aug 14, 2017
What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith | Ingrid Betancourt
Aug 02, 2017
Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power | Jorge Ramos
Jul 12, 2017
Don't feel sorry for refugees -- believe in them | Luma Mufleh
Jun 23, 2017
The refugee crisis is a test of our character | David Miliband
Jun 20, 2017
Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life? | Jim Yong Kim
Jun 16, 2017
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson
May 31, 2017
This is what democracy looks like | Anthony D. Romero
May 24, 2017
How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante
May 03, 2017
Behind the lies of Holocaust denial | Deborah Lipstadt
May 02, 2017
Political common ground in a polarized United States | Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks
Apr 03, 2017
Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election? | Simon Anholt
Mar 23, 2017
Why civilians suffer more once a war is over | Margaret Bourdeaux
Mar 22, 2017
The racial politics of time | Brittney Cooper
Feb 21, 2017
How jails extort the poor | Salil Dudani
Feb 16, 2017
3 ways to fix a broken news industry | Lara Setrakian
Feb 15, 2017
How to have better political conversations | Robb Willer
Jan 20, 2017
It's time to reclaim religion | Sharon Brous
Dec 21, 2016
An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi
Nov 29, 2016
How the US should use its superpower status | Ian Bremmer
Oct 25, 2016
This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
Mar 11, 2016